The World: The Death of a Fighting General

TROUBLED by the slow pace of ARVN's thrust into Laos, South Viet Nam's
President Nguyen Van Thieu made a painful decision early last week. He
would have to put a new man in charge. At 7 one morning, he summoned
Lieut. General Do Cao Tri, 41, his nation's most decorated and
best-known soldier, to the presidential palace in Saigon. Then he told
Tri that the job was his. The two men briefly discussed precisely how
and when Tri would take over command of Lam Son 719 from I Corps
commander Lieut. General Hoang Xuan...